Sugarloaf Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Sugarloaf Campground is a first-come, first-served campground located in the Williams Fork Valley. Facilities: There are 11 non-electric sites that will accommodate tents, trailers, and RVs. Each site contains a tent pad, fire grate and picnic table. Additional facilities include restrooms and trash service. Drinking water is available at the South Fork Campground a half mile away. Natural Features: Due to the mountain pine beetle epidemic and hazard tree removal, this campground offers no shade. Recreation: Popular activities include hiking in the Arapaho National Forest and nearby Byers Peak Wilderness , scenic driving and wildlife viewing. View a COTREX map . View a campground map .
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Additional facilities include restrooms and trash service.”
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 6 days ago, 23 km away
- Peak color
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
South Fork Group Site - Arapaho NF (CO)Arapaho National Forest · 0.4 miSouth Fork CampgoundArapaho National Forest · 0.5 miColumbine Landing Recreation Site6.3 mi
Blue River Campground (CO)White River National Forest · 7.2 mi
Horseshoe CampgroundArapaho National Forest · 8.5 mi
Prairie Point Campground (CO)White River National Forest · 12 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Silverthorne, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 2°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Sugarloaf Campground is in Colorado’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Joe Neguse (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →